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General perspectives· Functionalist: Education is an investment in human capital and the basis for economic growth. Schools value and reward individual achievement and hard work, thus fostering the work ethic of industrial society. Habits of good time-keeping ,obedience and diligence are taught through the discipline of the school regime.· Schools provide a broad curriculum to allow children to realise their talents. Differentiation of access is based on fair and objective assessment of pupils' abilities. The school acts as a bridge between the family-where particularistic values and ascription dominate- and the wider society where universalistic values are persuasive .Pupils learn that differential rewards are earned for different levels of achievement and this encourages competition.…read more

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General perspectives· Marxist: The curriculum is largely irrelevant to work. Schools prepare pupils for the tedium of work by offerings boring curriculum that crushes creativity and produces complaint workers. There is a correspondence between the socials relationships of work and school. Pupils are made passive by rewarding of conformity. Hierarchy is accepted through teacher control. Pupils are motivated by external rewards. Knowledge is fragments into lesson which limits its potential.· The ruling class defines what counts as knowledge, and the working class are progressively eliminated because of their lack of cultural capital on which they are judged or by self elimination. The result is that schools reproduce the social hierarchy in society. Meritocracy is a myth. It is used by the ruling class to legitimate pre existing inequalities and make people believe that role allocation is fair. This personalises failure and distracts attention from inequalities of capitalism which would other wise be a source of discontent.…read more

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Questions.· Give three reasons why education was made compulsory in 1880?.· According to functionalists what are the main functions of schools?· Identify and explain two ways in which schools serve the interests of society?· Outline and assess the view that education benefits the ruling class?…read more